The History of the Costume Institute

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With Pat Buckley and Katell Le Bourhis presiding and Annette and Oscar de la Renta pulling in the background, the Costume Institute's parties went on.

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In 1995, there was a cloudless coup at the Costume Institute, and Pat Buckley and her older society crowd where nudged aside, and replaced by Annette de la Renta, ANNA WINTOUR, the editor of VOGUE, and Clarissa Bronfman, the wife of a liquor heir who'd recently invested in a fashion line.

A year later, in what appeared to be an attempt to spread the work and the wealth fairly, the baton was passed to Wintour's chief competitor, ELIZABETH TIBERIS, the editor of the rival HARPER'S BAZAAR, for the opening-night party for a show on Christian Dior.